CVE-2016-9845

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the Virtio GPU Device emulator support is vulnerable to an information leakage issue. It could occur while processing 'VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_GET_CAPSET_INFO' command. A guest user/process could use this flaw to leak contents of the host memory bytes.

• CWE-200

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/15Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/22Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94763Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg00019.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49Third Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/15Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/22Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94763Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg00019.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49Third Party Advisory

Published

Dec 29, 2016

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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